| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: was persuaded to marry him, and went to live in Germany.
Over the next years she bore five daughters. After her husband's
death and the decline of the estate, she returned to England.
She was a friend to many of high social standing, including people
such as H. G. Wells (who considered her one of the finest
wits of the day). Some time later she married the brother of
Bertrand Russell; which marriage was a failure and ended in divorce.
Eventually Elizabeth fled to America at the outbreak of the Second
World War, and there died in 1941.
Elizabeth is best known to modern readers by the name
"Elizabeth von Arnim", author of "The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth and her German Garden |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: "And therefore one that Arbuthnot should admire," broke in
Bickley, attempting to lighten matters with a joke. "But come on
and let us be rid of this fool's errand. Certainly the world is a
lovely place after all, and for my part I hope that we haven't
seen the last of it," he added with a sigh.
"So do I," said Bastin, "though of course, Faith teaches us
that there are much better ones beyond. It is no use bothering
about what they are like, but I hope that the road to them
doesn't run through the hole that the old reprobate, Oro, calls
Nyo."
A few minutes later we started, each of us carrying his share
When the World Shook |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: and river.
He turned off by a by-road, and in a few minutes he was knocking
with his whip on the door of a large farmhouse, and a chorus of dogs
from the farmyard were making angry answer. A very tall, old,
white-headed man came, shading a candle, at the summons. He had
been of great strength in his time, and of a handsome countenance;
but now he was fallen away, his teeth were quite gone, and his voice
when he spoke was broken and falsetto.
'You will pardon me,' said Otto. 'I am a traveller and have
entirely lost my way.'
'Sir,' said the old man, in a very stately, shaky manner, 'you are
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